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The need for wisdom, discernment and understanding is crucial today. We do not need more man-made or man-originated wisdom, but instead, the wisdom that only comes from God. In the now classic, Experiencing God, Henry and Richard Blackaby give us a pathway to finding where God is working and joining Him there. They suggest four steps in discerning God’s direction and will — God’s Word, Prayer, Multitude of Counsel and Circumstances. James 1:5 says, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of ...
In I Thessalonians 1, Paul spoke to the believers thanking God for the church they had become. He said that he remembered them often in his prayers and he recalled their “work of faith, labor of love and endurance of hope.” He was describing the DNA of this congregation of believers there in Thessalonica. In verse 6, he said that they had become imitators of them and imitators of Jesus...